August 29, 2011 -- NEC Corp. has announced the beginning of sales activities for CyberWorkBench's dedicated FPGA version. CyberWorkBench is a C-based LSI design platform developed around the "All-in-C" paradigm that allows high-level synthesis and verification of any ANSI-C or SystemC program generating high-quality RTL. CyberWorkBench's verification tools include high-speed model generators, property checkers, software co-simulation environments and source code debuggers. NEC's CyberWorkBench FPGA version supports two of the leading FPGA vendors, Altera and Xilinx.

Although HDL is commonly used for LSI design, CyberWorkBench affordably leverages technologies to generate designs 1/7 smaller than hand coded RTL, to create cycle-accurate simulation models 100 times faster than RTL simulation, and to reduce the labor cost and production time of design by several times.

HDL input such as VHDL and Verilog HDL are used for the majority of FPGA design, but CyberWorkBench utilizes C-based design. Since C is widely used in software design, CyberWorkBench can convert directly into hardware design. This enables hardware to handle face recognition and high-level encryption that is traditionally difficult for hardware to process.